Improvement in cooling-faucets for beer-barrels



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No. 208,335. Patented Se pt. 24,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

CHARLES C. REDMOND, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO ARCHIBALD W. WHITE, AND ONE-FOURTH OF HIS RIGHT TO RICHARD D. BERRY, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOLING-FAUCETS FOR BEER-BARREL S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,335, dated September 24, 1878; application filed June 4, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES C. REDMOND, of San Jos, California, have invented a new and Improved Cooling-Faucet for Beer-Barrels; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the faucet attached. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section.

My invention relates to that class of beercoolers wherein small charges of the beer from the barrel are intermittently cooled in a small receptacle provided with a refrigerating medium, and has for its purpose to provide a means whereby the beer-cooler attach ed to the barrel will always be kept filled until all the beer in the barrel is exhausted and my inven tion consists in providing a depending spigot-pipe to connect the beer-cooler and the barrel, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the said drawings, Ais a pipe leading from the barrel and descending below its level, and provided with a valve, B. Projecting above the valve B, and sustained by a short pipe, C, is a vertical transparent receptacle, D, the mouth of which is inverted over the opening a, and is properly secured and packed by means of a plate, I), clamped to the bottom of the ice-receiver E, in the center of which the vertical receptacle D is sustained. A covering, F, having an opening, f, fits on top of the ice-receptacle, and through it projects the beer-receptacle D. The fact that the pipe depends below the barrel allows the entire quantity of beer to be exhausted into the receptacle D when the barrel approaches emptiness.

I am fully aware that beereoolers of this description are old, and hence I do not claim the cooler per se but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

In combination with the beer-cooler D E and the faucet B, the depending pipe A, to throw the cooler below the rim of the beerbarrel, as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES C. REDMOND. 

